Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain: Appel, Marty

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Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain by Marty Appel

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On August 2, 1979, the quintessentially tough, fiercely competitive New York Yankee Thurman Munson died at the age of 32, when the private plane he was piloting crashed in Canton, Ohio. Appel's biography captures Munson's meteoric rise to stardom in baseball's most storied franchise.

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Baseball fans in the Bronx and beyond will delight in this incomparable, far-reaching collection of insider tales. When 19-year-old Marty Appel got a job as a mail clerk for the New York Yankees, assigned to spend the summer of '68 answering Mickey Mantle's fan letters, he couldn't have known it was just the start of over a half-century entwined with the Bronx Bombers.